Kevin Wilson has chosen Anne Valente's story "Amelia" as the winner of the 2012 Copper Nickel Fiction Contest. Wilson made special mention of Adam Sturtevant's "The Pretenders" and Sarah Gerkensmeyer's "My Husband's House." All three stories will appear, along with editors' selections Shabnam Nadiya's "And We Rise How We Rise"…

The finalists of the poetry contest have been notified, and we will post the titles of the finalists here on Monday, at which time all the entrants of the poetry contest will receive a response by e-mail. The fiction contest is in its semifinal judging phase, and we hope to…

Thanks to all who've entered thus far. We're having such a great time reading these entries, we're going to extend the deadline to April 30th (11:59PM) in case anyone's still working to put an entry together.…